Here's some painting with a broad brush...

While it's impossible to separate which guys at the range actually hunt with a handgun, the guys that I know hunt are all pretty good shots. Minnesota doesn't have a separate handgun season for any game so a guy that chooses to use one is handicapping himself no matter how good a shot he is. Our deer season is a couple weeks at best. A guy that's proficient enough with a rifle at 200-yards but crappy with a handgun at 50-yards probably isn't going to give up all that killing radius.


Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost